TIBIALHEMIMELIA; DO WE NEED A MODIFICATION OF THE CURRENTLY USED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS?
- Assistant lecturer of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
- Lecturer of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
- Lecturerof Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
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Background: Tibialhemimelia is a rare congenital anomaly,it may occur in isolated form or combined with other congenital anomalies.Differentclassification systemshad been used for classification. While inferior tibiofibular joint diastasis is a well-known accompanying deformity in subtypes of different classification systems; complete diastasis of tibia and fibula is not included in either of classification systems. Methods:Case 1: A 15 days infant presented to our unit with complete diastasis of tibia and fibula from the level of the knee joint. Each bone has its own skin envelop. Case 2:A four weeks old boy with a partial distal diastasis of tibia and fibula from the level of mid leg downward, with almost completely separate skin envelop for each part of the bone. A search in the English literature about reported cases with complete diastasis of tibia and fibula and different classification systems for tibialhemimelia was done. Result: No reported cases in the literature with complete diastasis of tibia and fibula. Conclusion: We suggest modification of the current classification systems for tibialhemimelia to include complete diastasis of tibia and fibula as a variant. Level of evidence: Level IV
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[Abdelaal. Ahmed Hamed Kassem, Morsy. Ahmad Fawaz. Ashraf RashadMarzouk. and Ahmed Sleem. (2017); TIBIALHEMIMELIA; DO WE NEED A MODIFICATION OF THE CURRENTLY USED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS? Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (May). 281-284] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Assistant lecturer of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
